- Literacy and Language
- Bilingual/Bicultural Education
- Creative Art
- Social/Emotional Development
- Approaches to Learning
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The combination of sensory art and literacy can be a perfect teaching tool, especially for ELL students. Children learn optimally when hands-on, self-directed learning engages their eye/hand/brain connection. Learn how sensory play can help develop pre-writing and pre-reading skills and how
to use art to develop language acquisition skills with all students, including ELL children.
- Teachers will be able to understand how art can help develop language and literacy skills, and how to apply that knowledge in the classroom with creative, open-ended art activities.
- Teachers will be able to see how hands-on sensory language and literacy activities can help ELL children with the acquisition of English language skills.
- Children will benefit from being actively engaged in the process of acquiring pre-writing and pre-reading skills while having fun with sensory materials that stimulate right brain development, critical thinking skills and creative use of language.
- ELL students can participate in a sensory activity that is fun, non-threatening and can help them gain English language skills.
Participants will be able to:
- Identify how sensory play develops pre-writing and pre-reading skills and can assist ELL students in language acquisition.
- Describe how arts-based literacy activities foster visual literacy and creative thinking.
- Experiment with hands-on sensory art activities that promote literacy skills.
- Receive handouts that link art activities to developmental learning and specific children’s books.
Sensory Play isn’t just FUN – it’s good for your BRAIN! Engaging children’s senses in open-ended play can assist in developing language, cognitive, social-emotional and multi-sensory skills. In this creative workshop you’ll learn to link sensory activities to Learning Outcomes and experiment with dozens of art materials that develop emerging language and literacy skills. The combination of art and literacy can be a perfect teaching tool, especially for ELL students. The workshop begins with a PowerPoint Presentation on “Sensory Art, Literacy & Learning.” Following the presentation, the instructor will demonstrate literacy-based sensory activities. Whether you’re an Art Specialist or “artistically challenged,” you’ll have fun, get inspired and take home lots of new ideas to use right away in your classroom.
- www.naeyc.org - Responding to Linguistic and Cultural Diversity
- www.nifl.org - Developing Early Literacy: Report of the National Early Literacy Panel
- Soto, L.D., Understanding Bilingual/Bicultural Children
- Howard Gardner, Frames Of Mind: The Theory Of Multiple Intelligences
- Victor Lowenfeld, CREATIVE AND MENTAL GROWTH: Age & Stages of Art
Length of Session: 3 hours
Audio Visual: Power, Projection Screen
Group Size: Variable, according to individual needs
Room Set Up: Theatre-style or classroom style, based on hands-on materials
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